"We are excited to have these young ladies join the Sand Shark soccer program," Heberling said. "After a tremendous second season, our goals and expectations have increased.

"I feel this recruiting class will fill some holes we have and give us some more depth to be more competitive next season. These future Sand Sharks, in addition to our returning players, will continue to raise the bar and help take our program to another level next season."

USCB finished with a 9-10 overall mark and qualified for the Sun Conference tournament in its second season of competition in 2012.

The Sand Sharks lost four seniors but return most of their top players, including all-conference goalkeeper Chelsie Mummert, top point-scorer Jessica Tooley and the three players who tied for the team lead in goals — Stephanie Moldenhauer, Maddie Zak and Olivia Dizon.

Softball adds three for 2014

The Sand Shark softball team did not announce any new signings on Wednesday, but USCB previously added three recruits for the 2014 season.

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